Forest London contributes around ten thousand hours of service every year. From tree planting to community events, our volunteers are always there to lend a helping hand. We expect you to join us. Here are many ways.

VOLUNTEER ROLES

Tree Planter Volunteer with Forest London to plant tees in parks and natural areas in spring and fall. Time: Usually two to three hours on the weekends. Training: No training is required. We teach you how to plant a tree at the start of every planting event, so please arrive on time.

Tree Mascot We need friendly people to wear our tree mascot costurne at community events. The costurne is light-weight and easy to wear. Time: Two to three hours each time, usually on the weekend. Training: One-hour basic training.

Tree Aftercare Assistant Care for trees during their first few years to make sure of their health. You may, for example, provide the trees with protection from harmful weeds. Time: Usually one to one and a half hours on weeknights or Saturday mornings. Training: No training is required. We will teach you how to care for trees at the start of every aftercare event, so please arrive on time. Any necessary equipment will be provided.

Storyteller If you are a skilled writer and like to take photos, we have a job for you! Storytellers attend our events to take photos and interview volunteers. Your work will be posted on our website. Time: Usually two hours at events to collect material and take pictures, and more time to write stories and upload photos. At least two stories per year. Training: One-hour basic training.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. Which of the following volunteer roles might Bill choose if he has 1. 5 hours' free time?

A．Tree Planter.	B．Tree Mascot.
C．Tree Aftercare Assistant.	D．Storyteller.

2. What activities need training?
①Planting trees in natural areas.                    ②Digging harmful weeds for trees.
③Writing stories about volunteers.               ④Dressing up as trees at community events.

A．①④

B．②③

C．①②

D．③④

3. What's suggested in the text?

A．The works of the storytellers will be posted on notice boards.

B．Tree Aftercare Assistants need to prepare necessary equipment.

C．Those who don't know how to plant trees can also be volunteers.

D．The working time of the four volunteer roles is on the weekends.

4. What's the writer's purpose of writing the text?

A．To attract more people to Forest London.

B．To talk about the importance of planting trees.

C．To compare the volunteer roles at Forest London.

D．To thank volunteers for the efforts they have made.

5. Which part of a newspaper is the text probably from?

A．Science.

B．Education.

C．Society.

D．Sports.

Grace waved her hand in a dance pose with joy to show off her new painting to her mom. Her mom spoke quickly, "Shh…honey, I am busy with an important talk. I will see it later." She frowned and turned to her dad. "Dad, see what I have done," Grace said aloud in an excited voice. Her dad turned around while putting on his coat, and showed his thumbs up! Immediately, Grace complained, "Dad, you haven't seen it carefully yet." He smiled at her, saying, "No time, baby. I'll see it once again later. "Her elder brother was always busy in his own dream land! She didn't feel like wasting her time trying to show him the painting.

Grace stood there for a few seconds, and then stormed off to her own bedroom. She threw the paper on the table, banged the door and dropped herself on her bed. Looking up to the ceiling, she wove her anger net.

When her mom called her for dinner, she came late on purpose. She kept silent, and didn't look at anyone. Her mom was surprised to see the unusual behavior. Softly she asked, "Honey, are you OK? Did I do something wrong?" Grace was so angry that she ran away to her room.

Next day, when Grace came back home, she went to her bedroom straight away. When she turned on the light, she surprisedly found her oil painting was beautifully framed and put up on the wall. Just below the painting, it was written "We are so proud of you Grace, our little girl!”

Grace was so happy that she hugged her mom tightly. Her mom said, "Honey! I am so sorry, dear! We would never say 'no time' for anything in the future, whether big or small. Got it?" She kissed her mom and said, "Yes, mama, got it. You're my sweet mom!"

根据材料内容选择最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
6. Who saw Grace's painting in Paragraph 1?

A．Grace's father.

B．Grace's father and brother.

C．Grace's parents.

D．Grace's mother and brother.

7. What behavior of Grace made her mother surprised?

A．Looking up to the ceiling.

B．Running away to her room.

C．Dropping herself on her bed.

D．Keeping silent at dinner time.

8. What did Grace see when she turned on the light the next day?

A．A gift in the box.

B．Her painting on the wall.

C．A coat on the bed.

D．Some paper on the floor.

9. Which of the following words can best describe how Grace's feelings changed?

A．Excited→Angry→Pleased.

B．Proud→Upset→Angry.

C．Angry→Excited→Relaxed.

D．Confused→Amazed→Excited.

10. What's the best title for this text?

A．Got it?	B．No time.
C．Are you OK?	D．My sweet mom.

Parents are often surprised at their children's ability to use technology. A five-year-old child may easily find and use apps on a smart phone. A ten-year-old child can move up through the levels of a video game easily. Their parents may think their children were born geniuses!

Natural geniuses, however, are not common. But your parents are right if they think you are smarter than them. Most children are born smarter than their parents. This has been proved on IQ tests around the world recently. These tests have shown that over the last 100 years, each new generation has become smarter than the older one. In other words, you are smarter than your parents and your parents are smarter than your grandparents.

This increase in intelligence is called the "Flynn Effect". It was named after James Flynn. Flynn is a university professor in New Zealand. He first noticed this in 1980. According to his research, with each new generation, average IQ scores would increase by twenty percent.

But why are people getting smarter? Flynn and many other researchers believe this has something to do with technology. New technologies have further developed our brains. They have made us think better. So we may be better at completing the missing parts of a puzzle than our parents.

However, being smart doesn't make you wise. Wisdom comes with age and experience. A killer score on a computer game will not help you solve the everyday problems of life. For that, a smart kid will turn to the wisdom of his parents and grandparents.

Word Bank genius                  天才 prove                    证明 generation             一代人 average                 平均的 puzzle                  拼图

根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
11. What do IQ tests around the world show us these days?

A．Natural geniuses are easy to be found.

B．Most children are born with a high IQ.

C．Children's intelligence surprises their parents.

D．Most children are born smarter than their parents.

12. How do the scientists prove the increase in intelligence?

A．By doing tests.	B．By making guesses.
C．By telling stories.	D．By showing others' opinions.

13. What's the relationship between the average IQ score of one generation(y)and that of his older generation(x)?

A．y=x+20.	B．y=20x.
C．y=x-20%x.	D．y=x+20%x.

14. What caused the "Flynn Effect" according to the text?

A．Further education.	B．New technologies.
C．Different experiences.	D．A better environment.

15. Which of the following facts isn't the "Flynn Effect"?

A．Children are better at completing the missing part of a puzzle.

B．A five-year-old child may easily find and use apps on a smart phone.

C．A killer score on a computer game won't help solve the problems in life.

D．A ten-year-old child can move up through the levels of a video game quickly.

A long, long time ago, Earth suddenly started to shake strongly. Rivers were flooded. People and animals were moving hard in the water. Seeing this, the goddess Nüwa took out some big squashes and turned them into millions of boats.    16    

When the flood was gone, people were surprised to see a huge hole in the sky. It turned out there was a big fight between Gonggong, the God of Water, and Zhurong, the God of Fire.    17    He knocked Buzhou Mountain in anger, so the hole appeared in the sky and the southeastern ground also sank.

Nüwa decided to repair the sky. She collected green, red, white, black and yellow stones from the east, the west, the north and the center of the world.    18    She melted the stones in a huge pot and used the five-colored stone mud to repair the sky.

    19    The northwestern part was higher and full of mountains, while the southeastern part was covered with water.

At the same time, a bad black dragon was still harming people. Without taking a rest, Nüwa went to fight against it. She dropped a cow into the water to attract the dragon's attention.    20    The world was finally peaceful again.

Word Bank flood 泛滥；洪水 squash葫芦 melt 熔化

根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺、内容完整，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A．Gonggong lost the fight in the end.

B．People and animals were saved this way.

C．Soon the dragon came out and Nüwa killed it quickly.

D．Then a huge turtle carried her on its back and flew to Taihang Mountain.

E．Though the sky was whole again, the ground could never be smooth any more.

先通读短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

My good friend Miriam was going away on a long trip during the autumn. I called her the day before she left to________her a good trip. She was completely behind on everything she needed to do. She was a little________. “I bought some wonderful corms to plant for next spring,________now I have no time to plant them," she said.

I always plant many seeds in March and by June enjoy the sweet________everywhere. I just can't bear that a plant doesn't get a________to grow. "I'll plant them for you," I told her.

“Oh, would you?” Miriam was excited. She________to put them out in the hall for me.

I arrived several days later and found a paper bag in the hall. After a lot of________work, I planted all the corms in the perfect place.

When Miriam got back a few months later, she and I went out for dinner to celebrate her________. While eating, she said, "You know, I________can't believe I forgot to put those corms out in the hall!"

I looked at her________, "What do you mean? Of course, you________the corms. They were sitting in the hall in a paper bag."

"No," she said, "I left the corms on the desk. They' re still sitting on________."

"So,________did I plant that morning?" I asked.

She stopped as if to________me for her news. Then she slowly said, "That was cat poop. You planted cat poop."

Miriam looked at my face and did the best to keep from________. But I was too busy replaying the pictures of me picking these cat poop from a paper bag and planting them.

21.

A．wish

B．find

C．offer

D．choose

22.

A．relaxed

B．worried

C．interested

D．embarrassed

23.

A．so

B．or

C．but

D．and

24.

A．smell

B．voice

C．memory

D．dream

25.

A．place

B．reason

C．method

D．chance

26.

A．started

B．forgot

C．promised

D．learned

27.

A．harmful

B．sudden

C．boring

D．careful

28.

A．arrival

B．return

C．success

D．trip

29.

A．really

B．clearly

C．finally

D．recently

30.

A．in fear

B．in excitement

C．in surprise

D．in anger

31.

A．put up

B．put off

C．put out

D．put on

32.

A．them

B．it

C．her

D．us

33.

A．how

B．what

C．where

D．when

34.

A．prepare

B．ask

C．pay

D．train

35.

A．crying

B．thanking

C．shouting

D．laughing

阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。请将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。

time       once       steal       who       long       lift       hang       he       badly       end

When I was in middle school, I found out something bad about one of my best friends. He     36     money to buy cigarettes.

Not wanting to end our friendship, I didn't tell anyone about it. But the     37     I kept quiet, the angrier and more upset I was. I couldn't take it much longer. It got to the point where I would cry after     38     out with him. Because I was watching him throw his life away and nothing I said would change     39     mind.

Finally I had enough. I wanted him to stop so     40    . I wanted our friendship to go back to the way it was before, but it was never going back.     41     I realized this, all I had to do was to make a choice. Clearly, happiness is the right choice. I didn't realize this until months after the     42     of our friendship. I wasted so much     43     being unhappy around him, and life is too short to be unhappy.

I cannot change the people around me, but I can change the people     44     I choose to be around. A true friendship doesn't drag you down and turn you into something you' re not, but     45     you up and shows you the person you were meant to be. Your happiness is a choice. It may not be the easy one, but it will be the right one.

Word Bank cigarette香烟 drag拖拽

阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词。

Once there was a young camel who asked his mother many questions, as all children naturally do.

“Mother, why     46     we have a hump (驼峰) on our backs?” he asked.

His mother replied, “My child, these humps prevent hunger and thirst as we go on long journeys through the dry desert.”

“But mother, could you please tell me     47     we have long eyelashes (睫毛)?” he continued.

“Oh, son, those are to keep the sand in the desert from hurting our eyes during sandstorms. This protection allows us     48     continue traveling.” his mother answered patiently.

“And what about our strange feet?” he asked.

“They prevent our legs     49     sinking (下沉) into the soft sand. This lets us walk more easily and quickly,” his mother replied.

The child thought for     50     while. Then he said, “I see. The hump is to prevent hunger and thirst when we are in the desert, the legs are for walking through the desert and these eyelashes protect our eyes from the desert. So why are we in this zoo?”

根据下面的对话情景，在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子，使对话的意思连贯、完整。请将答案填写在答题卡相应的位置上。
A: Mike, have you got anything to do for the weekend?
B:     51    . My family and I are going skiing.
A: Sounds great! I'm planning to be out too.
B:     52    ?
A: We plan to visit the Ice and Snow World. My five-year-old sister loves it.
B: Little kids like going there!     53    ?
A: I take no interest in it. I want to see the latest movie.     54    .
B: Movies can also provide plenty of information for us.
A: It's a pity that I can't go to see the movie. Because my mom says younger kids' choices come first.
B: It's very common for the families with two kids. You should get used to it.
A:     55    . Anyway, hope we can enjoy our weekend!

56. 每个人都是独一无二的，都会发出光芒。请以“What I like about myself”为题，根据下面的要点和要求，用英语写一篇短文，为校刊的英文专栏投稿。

要点：1. 你喜欢自己的哪些方面；
2. 你喜欢的原因是什么；
要求：1. 文中不得出现真实姓名和学校名称；
2. 词数100左右。

What I like about myself

Everyone is special. So am I. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________